Plan Simple with Mia Moran

“You need to build the muscles in order to strengthen your sage so that it's there ready with a bit of a louder voice than the saboteur voice.”

–Jackie Meek

What if your mind served you … instead of working against you? I’m really excited to talk with Jackie Meek about getting off the roller coaster of “the mom juggle.” Our brain OFTEN defaults to the negative, but we can learn to choose how to respond (or not respond) to things.

We talk about the saboteurs of our brain, including the pleaser saboteur. While it can help us stay safe, we can overdo “people pleasing.” When you start to feel resentful that nobody else is helping. When you say yes when you mean no and you've overcommitted, that’s the saboteur pushing you to do things that are not in your best interest under the guise of keeping us safe.

In addition to saboteurs, we have sages in our brain. Jackie shows us how to up our positive quotient or the amount of time that you are using your sage muscles as opposed to your saboteur muscles in the brain.

We talk about: 

• What happens when we put our expectations on other people
• Focusing on your five senses and a secret tool for dealing with triggers to press pause before you respond
• Building your sage muscles throughout the day, so that voice is louder than your saboteurs
• Asking the question: What would my wiser elder self do? 
• Essential maintenance, or how we really take care of ourselves
• Sharing the language of the sage and the saboteur with our families

ABOUT JACKIE

Jackie Meek helps frazzled mums to confidently boss the mum juggle. She set up her business, Future Path Life Coaching in 2016 and equips mums to reduce the emotional roller coaster, minimise negative chatter and worry less. She has a passion to come alongside mums, having a difficult birthing story having experienced giving birth extremely prematurely, loss of a baby, postpartum psychosis and post natal depression. Jackie offers 1:1 coaching as well as a group coaching programme, The Mum Boardroom, an oasis for busy mums to focus on challenges in a supportive and inspiring environment. She also facilitates a 6 week online Positive Mental Fitness Bootcamp equipping mums to build their mental fitness so they can face life's challenges resourcefully.

EPISODE LINKS

Find Jackie:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiemeek/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/futurepathlifecoaching
• Website: https://www.futurepathlifecoaching.co.uk/

Mentioned Links:

• https://www.positiveintelligence.com/

DOABLE CHANGES FROM THE EPISODE

• NOTICE EXPECTATIONS. Where are you often triggered? We discuss the example of dinner. Maybe it’s that or bedtime or how when you do something fun with your kids and they don’t behave the way you want them to. Think through what expectations you are putting on the situation. What happens if you pay attention to those expectations and shift them?
• TUNE INTO ONE OF YOUR SENSES. Next time you are triggered, tune into one of your senses. One way to do this is to rub your finger and thumb together firmly. This takes your attention away from your saboteur brain and choose how you want to respond.
• CONSULT YOUR WISER ELDER SELF. Ask your wiser, elder self what she would do in a certain situation. This takes you out of the moment and allows you a different perspective so you can choose your response.

You’ve probably heard me reference FLOW365 or FLOW365ers on the show. This is our community for women balancing BUSINESS, MOTHERHOOD (often kids are in the teen and young adult phases), and changing BODIES (because we are no longer in 30-year old bodies). 

“There's something about the women that are drawn to this group that show up here. It's a level of support that I've never experienced before.” We get these kinds of comments regularly, so I finally pressed record and made an episode that talks about FLOW365, who it's for, and how it makes a difference… In case you are tempted. 

https://plansimple.com/flow365

“There's nothing the nervous system doesn’t affect. It affects our physical health, our mental and emotional health, our spiritual health, how we set goals, our relationships, whatever we're creating in the world.” 

–Kelly Lubeck

Is your nervous system triggered? It is … but there’s something you can do about it. I’m really excited to talk with Kelly Lubeck, a healing practitioner with lots of experience working with the nervous system. Kelly’s passionate about the nervous system, because it affects our health and well being, our relationships, and our work.

Kelly talks about the different parts of our nervous system. Some—fight, flight, freeze—are about survival. There’s also a part about love and connection that sustains us and allows us to heal and thrive.

Sometimes our nervous systems get stuck in go mode. We can’t step into loving connection. We can’t sleep. Our hormones get dysregulated. We might feel anxious or burned out. Other times or other people get stuck in freeze mode. They start to shut down. That might look like chronic fatigue or depression. Kelly likes to remind people that “the world needs you well.”

We talk about: 

• The sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system
• Modern life makes us feel like we are in being chased by a lion mode all the time, but we aren’t and our bodies aren’t meant to be that way. 
• Being calm all the time is not the goal — we need the go energy sometimes, but we need to be able to turn it off
• Learning to undo the good girl mechanism that makes us try to calm what’s around us
• Doing generational work of healing
• Patterned and predictable vs. doing the new and how we get triggered by new habits

ABOUT KELLY

Kelly Lubeck, MPH, is passionate about changing the world for the better, through individual and community-level healing programs that inspire wellness, health and soul- centered, embodied leadership.

Changemaking is hard work – and can extract a toll on those who deliver it. Kelly guides changemakers and leaders to heal their individual nervous systems and release self- defeating patterns of self-sacrifice and overgiving in their work and relationships that lead to burnout, anxiety and illness. As they expand their capacity for changemaking, this healing ripples out to the world and changes it for the better.

Kelly helps women leaders to stay grounded, centered, and embodied in the midst of changemaking, so they can deliver and lead impactful work, enjoy meaningful relationships and  have deep connection with their purpose, without sacrificing body, mind and spirit to their mission. And that makes an even greater impact.

Kelly’s work happens at the intersection of public service, shamanic healing, yoga teaching and philosophy, science of the nervous system, skilled and soulful coaching, and a variety of holistic health approaches.

She draws upon her personal experiences of journeying back from an unexplained health crisis and burnout (twice!) to guide committed changemakers with clarity, wisdom, confidence and compassion.

Kelly integrates her extensive background of over 25 years of developing and leading public health and early childhood programs in Latin America, the U.S. and Africa, with over 15 years leading educational and resilience building, holistic healing programs, keynotes, workshops and retreats to individuals, groups and organizations around the world.

She earned her Master’s in Public Health at Columbia University. Her holistic training includes her yoga teacher training certification (RYT), Healing the Light Body shamanic healing certification, Sacred Depths coaching certification, holistic health coaching certification, and years of study on the nervous system and trauma healing with a variety of teachers. Her finest teacher thus far, though, is her 12-year-old child, who’s taught her about most things in life and her capacity for love.

LINKS

• http://www.kellylubeck.com/

Doable Changes from this episode:

• ORIENT YOURSELF. Take time to orient yourself in your physical space. Look around you. Notice where you are. Notice your surroundings. This practice is grounding, and it can be calming or activating for different people or at different times. This practice becomes more beneficial as it becomes familiar. 
• IDENTIFY FIGHT, FLIGHT OR FREEZE. Remember that the goal is not to be calm all the time, but we also don’t want to feel like we are being chased by lions all the time. Start by simply noticing if you are in fight, flight, or freeze mode. Notice if you have channels open to love and connection. Are you flowing between modes or are you stuck in one?
• NOTICE SIGNS YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM IS OFF. Our bodies often tell us when something is off. Are you feeling anxious? Having trouble sleeping? Having digestive issues? Do you feel like you can’t settle down? Or maybe you can’t get off the couch? Don’t beat yourself up, but start to pay attention and observe the signs that you might need to make change or get help.

“There's a difference between productivity and focus. There's a difference between getting more done and getting the right things done.”

–Megan Flatt

What if it’s not about being productive? What if it’s about being focused? I’ve got business coach Megan Flatt back on the show to talk about focus and rethinking all of our ideas about productivity. Wanna get stuff done? Don’t worry. We’ll talk about how getting clear on how we want to feel and finding our focus lead the way.

We aren’t meant to focus all the time, but most of us feel like we should. The idea that starting early, pushing hard, and getting a lot done is a virtue that’s deeply ingrained in us. We’re pushing back against capitalist and patriarchal ideas. We’re looking at new ways to own our time.

What would you do if you had 90 minutes to focus? Our to-do list culture often has us doing a lot of unimportant things. They are things that keep life running, but they don’t help us step into our greatness or do our most important work. We dive into how to change that.

We talk about: 

• Being focused and productive in short spurts
• Letting go of the idea that you need to work all the time or at a certain time
• Knowing your own best focus time and saving it for your most important work
• Using focus for deep work, planning, and clearing the deck
• How your to-do list might be sabotaging your productivity (or getting clear on goals, projects, tasks)
• Getting out of overwhelm by getting more overwhelmed for a minute

BIO

Megan Flatt is the CEO of Let’s Collective, a business growth strategy firm devoted to making entrepreneurship easier. She is also the founder of Focus Sessions, a virtual coworking and accountability membership to get your most important work done. Let’s Collective’s mission is to help small businesses scale without burning out through strategic planning, revenue focused decisions and science backed accountability.

Megan is obsessed with lattes, post-it notes and helping women make money. When not doing that, she’s hanging with her husband and two kids, probably near the water, in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can catch up with Megan at letcollective.co or focus-sessions.com.

LINKS

• https://www.focus-sessions.com/

MENTIONED LINK

• Focus with Megan Flatt
• Well Planned Holidays with Megan Flatt and Mama CEO Panel
• Sticking to Your Weekly Workflow on the Well Planned Series with Megan Flatt
• Starting a Business after “Momming” with Megan Flatt and Mia Moran
• Starting a Business on the Well Planned Series with Megan Flatt
• Systems & Support on Well Planned Series with Megan Flatt
• Well Planned—Dealing with Overwhelm with Megan Flatt
• Well Planned in 90 Days Cycles with Megan Flatt
• Spinning Plates with Megan Flatt
• Well Planned: Overwhelm vs. Laziness

Doable Changes from this episode:

• KNOW YOUR MOST FOCUSED TIME. When we work when we are most focused and ready, we tend to get more done with more ease. What time would you choose to work if you didn’t have guilt around not working at expected times?
• BREAK YOUR PROJECTS INTO TASKS. Too often we put projects on our to-do list. Then we don’t do things because they feel too big. Break your projects into the simplest steps. If you can’t do it in an hour, it probably has more steps. Schedule time for each step or task.
• SET A FOCUS SPRINT. Set aside 90 minutes to focus. Turn off all distractions. Write down specifically what you will do in that time. Turn on a timer and go. Give yourself a short break in the middle and then get back to it. When the 90 minutes is up, let go of focus.

“What we think we want is often not what we truly want … We have to give ourselves permission to have what we want.” –Jill Hope

What does your voice of desire say? That’s one question Jill Hope asks. Jill is a money mindset coach for women, or as I like to say an abundance coach. The voice of desire is one of 5 voices that Jill teaches to help women unlock the blueprint to unleash our money-making power.

Jill’s first business was fairly successful, but it didn’t flow. She had worked so hard to get where she was, but she wasn’t making the money to do the things she wanted to do. She had taken all the classes, worked with coaches, done all the things (sound familiar). She stopped listening to the outside voices and started asking, “What does Jill want?” This got her out of autopilot. It led to more body awareness, more clarity about who she was. And that translated to more dream clients.

We talk about this process. She didn’t check out of her family or her business for a year. She kept asking the question as she did daily life. She kept acting on the answers. She learned to give herself permission for what she wanted.

We also talk about: 

• Noticing where you aren’t being authentic … even when you think you are. 
• Recognizing fears around our desire for money or abundance
• The Five Whys process to get to the root of what you want
• Learning to listen to the voices that lead us toward our purpose and our dreams (and intuition is just one of the voices we need to listen to (and we need to learn to listen to it in different areas of our lives)
• Tuning into your desires and not micromanaging the how
• Working on your money relationship

ABOUT JILL

Jill Hope is a money mindset coach for women, a writer, inspirational speaker, and founder of I Shine®.

After a successful 22-year corporate career, Jill made the leap into entrepreneurship to pursue her passion of empowering women to connect with, listen to, and embody their authentic voice, own and express their unique gifts, and receive richly doing purpose-based work that they love.

Jill offers free weekly videos on her YouTube channel that support mompreneurs to make more money in their business (https://www.youtube.com/@JillHope-ishinewealth)

This is Jill’s second iteration of her business, having built a successful initial business coaching moms to build confidence and inner strength in their kids, and certifying facilitators to empower kids through her proprietary I Shine® Inner Wellness Curriculum and Powerful Girl Within® Curriculum.

LINKS

• https://www.youtube.com/@JillHope-ishinewealth
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/highestlevellife/

Free Gift: 4 Secrets To Skyrocket Your Business And Bank Account Masterclass: https://ishinewealth.com/masterclass/

MENTIONED LINK: Raising Great Girls (Yourself Included)

DOABLE CHANGES FROM THIS EPISODE

• ASK WHAT DO I WANT? Practice asking yourself what you want throughout the day. You can apply it to different situations from what do I want for breakfast to when do I want to brush my teeth. When you are faced with too much going on around you, ask What do I want? When somebody asks you to do something, ask, What do I want.
• DIG FOR THE WHY. Identify something you want. Ask “Why do I want this?” Write down the answer. Ask, “Why do I want that?” Again write down the answer. Keep doing this until you have asked “why” five times. This should help you get to real reason behind your desire.
• NOTICE YOUR VOICE OF JUDGMENT. Notice when you are judging yourself around money or what you want. You don’t have to act on your voice of judgment, but start to notice what it tells you. This can help you understand parts of your money relationship and let you explore more of your real why.

“How do we stretch our joy and give ourselves permission for more and more joy, not only to choose things for joy, but to accept joy?”

–Laura West

What if you opened your wild creative heart? Helping people do that in business is business coach Laura West’s mission. If you have trouble giving yourself permission to seek joy or can’t imagine how joy and business go together, you need this conversation. This one is very much for the entrepreneurs, but it all overlaps with life, so if more joy sounds good, listen up.

You might know how it goes when you aren’t joyful in your business. You’re less creative, less connected. If you are joyful, you are more likely to say yes to putting yourself out there, to pick up the phone and make a call, or be innovative.

What if we get rid of words like strive and hustle and grind? What if we stopped buying into the idea that work has to be a drag? Forget your morning routine. Start your morning joy ritual and see what opens up.

We talk about: 

• Finding joy in the people you work with and what you bring to them
• Exploring your personal habits to see if you are aligned with joy
• What to do when things that are supposed to bring us joy become tasks or shoulds 
• The Good morning, I love you ritual
• Offering compassion to yourself and taking time to cultivate your joy muscles 
• How finding joy can mean finding your voice

BIO

Laura West knows when you are aligned with your joy and passion, you are more innovative, creative, and confident and success is inevitable! She has helped 1000s of conscious business owners over the last 20+ years unlock their Soul Work, personal power, creativity, and leadership presence.

Laura is the CEO of the Center for Joyful Business, international business success coach and host of Joyful Business TV. She helps coaches, healers and purpose-driven entrepreneurs discover their creative leadership inside and out, so they create a wholehearted successful business.  She is passionate that you can do meaningful work that makes a positive difference while making great money!

She is also the author and creator of The Joyful Business Plan, a right brain creative planning toolkit, Success Scripting™  and creator of 100s of programs, workshops and creative tools.

GUEST LINK

• Web: JoyfulBusiness.com
• Fb biz: https://www.facebook.com/CenterForJoyfulBusiness
• Fb group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/joyfulbusinesscommunity
• Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurahwest/
• Insta: https://www.instagram.com/laurawestjoy/
• TV: joyfulbusiness.com/jbtv

Doable Changes from this episode:

• CREATE A MORNING RITUAL. If your morning routine has started to feel like a task or chore you have to do, shift to a morning ritual. Use the ritual to set your intention for the day. Do you need an “I love you” ritual? Some dreaming on the page? Some joyful music?
• SCRIPT IT. What is your dream? It could be what you want the year to look like or a project you are excited about or your home. Laura recommends scripting it. That could be in writing or walking and imagining. Either way, let yourself see it (not plan all the details, but see, with joy.)
• ACT LIKE THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BE. Choose to be the person you want to be today. As different things come up during the day, make the choice aligned with that person. Take it one choice at a time.

“I think of self-care as taking care of my body, mind, energy and soul. I have learned to take this role very seriously because it is foundational to all that I do at work and home.”

I was definitely sold early on the idea that self-care is getting a pedicure, a regular massage, or going to yoga class. Two problems with this. First, both are pretty big things! Second, they made me think of self-care as something “extra,” as a luxury. 

Self-care is not extra!!! It is necessary, especially for those of us who call ourselves caregivers. We have to fill our cups in order to be able to fully give to those we love with no “martyre energy” attached.

It has taken me years to REALLY walk my talk in this regard. Today I thought I would pull back the curtain of my thinking about self-care today.

Are you sick of the word self-care? For me, it got really overused, and it became one more thing to do right! I was definitely sold on the idea that self-care is getting a pedicure, a regular massage, or going to yoga class— these are pretty big things! Problem is that they made me think of self-care as something “extra,” as a luxury. 

I would like to offer that self-care is necessary.

On this episode, I go into 3 different self-care concepts and ways to integrate them.

1. Awareness of what we need
2. Food as self-care
3. Planning as self-care

Any act of caring for ourselves is self-care. Taking care of basic needs — nourishing food, water, moving our body, sleep — is self care.

I believe we can all find simple acts of self-care we can do every day. I also believe in setting aside regular time for “bigger” self care. Maybe that yoga class, but maybe something else.

Let’s look at some of the super basic self-care acts that we can work into our lives regularly no matter what hats you’re wearing.

Do you need to get outside for some fresh air? Do you need 10 minutes of quiet with nobody bothering you? Do you need to eat? It’s easy to brush that off because you're too busy or you just need to finish one more thing. But you can stop and give yourself what you need.

Getting in the practice of just listening to what you need, I believe is where most of us need to start — given the conditioning I think most women got.

And then we can expand that view, and let what is basic grow and evolve. I promise it does.

On this episode I talk about 10-10-10, a tool originally taught to me by Nina Manolson. I highly recommend!

Here are some self-care moves you can use. Most of them cost nothing and can fit into little pockets of your day:

1. Take a shower or bath
2. Plan your meals
3. Get dressed
4. Talk a walk
5. Pause to check in with what your body needs in stressful moments
6. Ask for help
7. Receive the help (asking and receiving, two separate things)
8. Go to bed on time
9. Make sure that the food you're eating is really serving your body
10. Exercise
11. Read a book
12. Put your feet up for five minutes
13. Take three deep breaths throughout the day
14. Drink eight glasses of water daily
15. Write in your journal for 15 minutes
16. Do three minutes of breathwork
17. Get outside and feel the sun on your face
18. Turn on your favorite song and dance
19. Write down 3 things you are grateful for at the beginning or end of each day
20. Plan for a more in depth self care session (a massage, a day hike, lunch with a friend, a leisurely visit to a museum or botanic garden or bookstore, a morning alone at a cafe … what really restores you?)

Nourishing yourself is self-care.

We show up better for ourselves, for our families, and for our businesses when we are nourished. So stop skipping meals or living on caffeine and cookies.

If nourishing yourself feels hard, look at what you can do to make it easier:

• Know what is for dinner—this saves you time and energy throughout the day. 
• Move dinner forward during the day (prepping veggies while you make your morning smoothie or putting something in your slow cooker or stopping at the market while you run other errands). 
• Plan a day to batch prep/cook.

Planning means you are putting your dreams, goals, and needs into time. You are being intentional about how you spend your time and energy.

Planning means you are paying attention to your needs when the smart part of your brain is activated.

This does not just mean planning for self-care, it’s planning your days, weeks and months to respond to what you really need — around work, home, and wellness.

If you are having trouble putting yourself first, by noticing what you need in the moment, you can plan in a moment when your brain can make the space for you. This is the #1 reason I am so passionate about planning!

Reclaim that intimacy between the two of you outside of the setting where you parent, work, do your normal life. 

–Christal Allen

Has your relationship taken a backseat to everything else in your life? I’m really excited to talk with Christal Allen, a certified Life & Relationship coach, about how we can reconnect and work through some of the stuff that gets in the way of a satisfying relationship. 

First, let's acknowledge that all the caretaking—kids, parents, pets …— can be draining. When we feel like we don’t have a full cup, putting something into our romantic relationship can feel like one more thing we have to do. If you’re thinking, “Why do I have to be the one to do something about our relationship?”, we get into that!

Do you have a list of things that your spouse does right or wrong? Things that you want them to do that they don’t? Things you think they should just know? A sense that things could be more equal. You’re not alone. Christal suggests starting with getting clear on what equality looks like when it comes to managing your household and when it comes to you and your relationship. Once you know that, can you communicate it in a way that is not blaming or criticizing? 

We talk about: 

• The conversations we have in our heads but never with our partners (and how that doesn’t work) and not giving up on communicating your needs
• Recasting the stories you are telling yourself as truths
• Four steps to rekindling a spark in your relationship: picture the result, what do I need to do, what do I need to feel, what do I need to believe about my relationship to create this result
• Defining date night for you and your partner
• How to get talking and reconnecting if you’re a little rusty 
• What to do when your partner is ramping down or retiring and you are coming into your own

BIO

Christal Allen-Harrahill is a mom, wife, and certified Life & Relationship Coach. She is the Strong Marriage Coach for professional women who want to stop having the same fight with their partner.

Through her Private Coaching and Mastermind programs, she helps women create Strong Marriages through Identity Transformation. This work results in them improving their relationship and running households that support their dreams.

Christal is relatable with a down-to-earth vibe that makes you feel seen, safe, and cared for. She believes women are change makers, and that families and generations are forever changed when women engage in their own unique transformation.

When she is not spending time with family and friends, or helping clients, she is learning something new, enjoying the outdoors, drinking tea, or watching The Golden Girls!

LINKS

• Website: https://christalallen.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifecoachchristal/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christal-allen-harrahill-0982b296/
• Free Love Language E-Book: https://christalallen.com/contact/

Doable Changes from this episode:

• PLAN A DATE NIGHT. Date night doesn’t have to be dinner out or a movie. It can be walk together, going rock climbing, taking a class. Date night doesn’t even have to be “night.” It can be going to lunch or out for coffee. Date night is a space for you and your partner to reconnect. Decide together what you’d like to do, or take turns planning something you think you’d both like.
• START TALKING. If you are deep in caretaking mode, it can be hard to talk about things other than the kids. Question packs for couples can help jumpstart conversations and help you both get to know each other better.
• FIND THE TRUTH. Are you stuck in a loop of “He doesn’t support me” or “never does X”? What if you restate that. For example, instead of “He never does anything around the house. I have to do it all.” Try: “I'm thankful that I'm so capable in taking care of this household and I have a husband that helps.” Next doable step, communicate what kind of help you would like more of.

A lot of people who have really big dreams and visions and incredible messages for the world shoot themselves down, because they don't think it's possible

–Ashley Luldlow

What are you doing in 2023? Not sure yet? That’s okay. Take some time to dream big and get excited about your vision. I’m talking with Ashley Ludlow, a multi-passionate entrepreneur and mama, who runs a digital media agency and is also a songwriter, about her unique vision process — vision board videos.

Do you ever have an idea that you’re so excited about for a minute? But then the overwhelm and the doubt and the “why didn’t I do this earlier?” kicks in. That dread or disappointment or frustration can stop us in our tracks. That’s why having a tool that reconnects us to the excitement helps.

Ashley suggests that you start your vision board video process by taking time to dream or vision. Let it be big and real about what you want in your life, where you want to be, who you want to be with. Don’t put any limits on it, but get really clear on what you want, not what other people want or expect of you.

We talk about: 

• The myth that something has to give and how we can have all the things we really want in our lives
• Learning to imagine what’s possible and dreaming big, exploring the dreams of all the parts of you—your spiritual self, physical self, relationships, finance … asking what would happen if you got rid of the boundaries—family expectations, financial stressors
• Using present tense and positive vision statements and not getting hung up on the visual or techy parts of creating a vision board video
• How to actually use a vision board video once you’ve made it
• Nature and creative play as ways back when you’ve forgotten how to dream

BIO

Ashley Ludlow is a Creative Business Strategist and Technology Consultant. In addition to running her own agency, Ashley is a Musical Keynote Speaker, encouraging creative entrepreneurs to see the great value in life and the fantastic role they play in it. She truly believes that anything is possible. Having 12 years of experience in business, design, and technology, Ashley now enjoys supporting heart-centered business owners get their digital ducks in a row and authentically represent the essence of who they are in the digital world. When she’s not behind her computer or on stage, you can find her visiting Disney Parks, spending time with family, or both. Ashley has been married for 16 years and has 5 beautiful children.

LINKS

• Website: https://www.ashleyludlow.com/
• Vision Board Video Workshop Series: https://solmiga.com/vision
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ashleyludlow/
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@AshleyLudlow

MENTIONED LINK

• Living in Your Box with Sarah Jenks

Doable Changes from this episode:

• PLAY OR GET OUTSIDE. Have you forgotten how to dream? Sometimes we are so overwhelmed or burnt out that we just can’t seem to dream big. Or maybe we’ve set up so many boundaries that we don’t know how to see beyond them. Try getting outside or doing creative play—jumping on a trampoline or squishing so play dough around to open yourself up.
• DREAM BIG. You need time for this. Time when you are uninterrupted. Time when you are not trying to do something. It feels counter-intuitive, but taking this time helps you do more. Get really clear on what you want, not what others want or expect from you. Don’t edit or judge your dreams — and don’t put up barriers or try to figure out the how.
• THINK POSITIVE AND IN THE PRESENT TENSE. There are two parts to this one. Write about your dream as if it has already happened instead of in the future tense. I am a published  author instead of I will publish my book. And keep it positive. Focus on what you want instead of what you think you need to stop or avoid. I eat lots of delicious veggies that make me feel fabulous instead of I stop eating so many cookies.